Treasurer: At Fresno Audubon’s August board meeting, we thanked Rich Gilman for his many years of service as the FAS Treasurer, and voted to make George Folsom our new Treasurer. Strategic Planning: Over the summer, the Board’s strategic planning committee met a number of times...
President's Message Welcome to Fresno Audubon Society's 2018-2019 season. We have been working over the summer organizing field trips and discussing the strategic direction of Fresno Audubon. Thanks to Susan Estep for organizing the Wednesday Walks and to Kevin Enns-Rempel for the Saturday field trips over...
This year, the board set up two sub-committees: A budget committee (members Robert Snow (chair), Rich Gilman, and George Folsom), and a strategic planning committee (members Robert Snow (chair), Radley Reep, Judy Johnson and Barbara Bailey). The budget committee has been working on developing budget...
President's Message May is the final month in our fall-to-spring birding season. Our final general meeting of the season will feature Andrea Jones, Director of Bird Conservation for Audubon California. Andrea will speak on Audubon's efforts to preserve the Salton Sea as a critical node in the...
President's Message April 2018 will be the busiest month of the year for Fresno Audubon Society. In addition to our general meeting and three field trips, we are offering a birding class, leading two birding trips to Sierra Foothill Conservancy (SFC) preserves and staffing an educational booth...
President's Message An element of our mission at Fresno Audubon is advocacy. Advocacy can take the form of letters to the editor, phone calls to representatives, public service announcements or other efforts. One of the most effective means of advocacy is to meet directly with your...
President's Message This month's speaker will be Gary Lindquist from Tulare Audubon. If you've ever birded with Gary you know what a great birder he is, but you may not be aware of his photography, which is also excellent. I hope you will be able to...
President's Message I would like to thank all the people who have volunteered for Fresno Audubon in 2017. This includes the field trip leaders and organizers, board members, meeting host, surveyors, record keepers and birding teachers. Thank you for all you do for Fresno Audubon. The board...
President's Message We close out our 2017 meetings this month with Gary Woods' photography presentation on Tuesday 12 December at 7:00 pm. We usually hold this meeting at the Woodward Park Library, but it was unavailable this year so the meeting will be at our usual...
President's Message November activities begin with a field trip to Ball Ranch on 8 November with George Folsom. This property is not normally accessible to the public, so it's great that George can get us onto the site. This is a good place to see Lewis's...
